Comments on: Human Comment Spammers – What To Do? http://www.randomprocess.ca/2009/03/29/human-comment-spammers-what-to-do/ NOT just another WordPress weblog. What were they thinking when they came up with that tagline anyways? Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Paul http://www.randomprocess.ca/2009/03/29/human-comment-spammers-what-to-do/#comment-6244 Paul Tue, 12 May 2009 08:54:19 +0000 http://www.randomprocess.ca/?p=1239#comment-6244 Hi. OK, I'll chime in and make a comment. It is your blog so you can delete or modify comments how you feel. I do it to mine if the link looks to be spammy but unless akismet says it is spam and the comment has lots of links to "not nice sites" I let them be. I try not to mark comments as spam, if I don't like it I click delete instead. The reason? I have had my name added to akismet, no idea why, I just like stumbling around sites and making comments if I read something interesting - I guess someone didn't like me and maked me as spam (I contacted Akismet and all is fine now). I think akismet lets people mark things as spam a little too easy when maybe they should be just deleted. I hope I have made sense. I even don't mind the occasional link in the comment if it is pointing to something that relates to the post. cheers from Australia.Paul Hi. OK, I’ll chime in and make a comment.
It is your blog so you can delete or modify comments how you feel. I do it to mine if the link looks to be spammy but unless akismet says it is spam and the comment has lots of links to “not nice sites” I let them be. I try not to mark comments as spam, if I don’t like it I click delete instead. The reason? I have had my name added to akismet, no idea why, I just like stumbling around sites and making comments if I read something interesting – I guess someone didn’t like me and maked me as spam (I contacted Akismet and all is fine now). I think akismet lets people mark things as spam a little too easy when maybe they should be just deleted.
I hope I have made sense.
I even don’t mind the occasional link in the comment if it is pointing to something that relates to the post.
cheers from Australia.Paul

]]> By: Akismet Says - Don’t Be Kind On Spam Comments » random process | charlie 2.0 http://www.randomprocess.ca/2009/03/29/human-comment-spammers-what-to-do/#comment-6197 Akismet Says - Don’t Be Kind On Spam Comments » random process | charlie 2.0 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:19:25 +0000 http://www.randomprocess.ca/?p=1239#comment-6197 [...] It seems like, if anything, I’ve been too lenient. [...] [...] It seems like, if anything, I’ve been too lenient. [...]

]]> By: Victor http://www.randomprocess.ca/2009/03/29/human-comment-spammers-what-to-do/#comment-6091 Victor Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:39:36 +0000 http://www.randomprocess.ca/?p=1239#comment-6091 I also implement "dofollow" on some of my blogs. It gets annoying sometimes that I get comments that are utterly senseless, and some even pornographic in a sense. I delete their posts, and not just the links. I know how bloggers put in a lot of effort just to maintain their blogs, and it's really annoying that some people just don't value this. I also implement “dofollow” on some of my blogs. It gets annoying sometimes that I get comments that are utterly senseless, and some even pornographic in a sense. I delete their posts, and not just the links. I know how bloggers put in a lot of effort just to maintain their blogs, and it’s really annoying that some people just don’t value this.

]]> By: NiX http://www.randomprocess.ca/2009/03/29/human-comment-spammers-what-to-do/#comment-5981 NiX Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:30:28 +0000 http://www.randomprocess.ca/?p=1239#comment-5981 I remove all comments that do not add anything useful to the original post or conversation, just as described above. I sometimes read posts at SEO forums and there are a lot of offers from people who are willing to post spam comments in blogs for a very small fee. For example, they may charge only a few cents for 100 blogs. This is an example, I never really got into it. Personally, a include a link to one of my websites whenever I make a post, just so that I can be found and reached if necessary, and it is not necessarily my personal blog. If a comment is interesting, I sometimes want to see the commentor's site, which bring him traffic. Why should I not be able to get the same, if my comment is somehow useful? ;) All in all, it's not that hard to see if somebody made a comment just to get a link, or to add something to the conversation and get a link as a reward. Got nothing to add? No reward, no link! The link must be removed by admin. Even if a comment is 200 words long, it has to be meaningful with regards to the topic being discussed, otherwise it's pointless. To summarize, I support removal of stupid comments and/or links. :D I remove all comments that do not add anything useful to the original post or conversation, just as described above. I sometimes read posts at SEO forums and there are a lot of offers from people who are willing to post spam comments in blogs for a very small fee. For example, they may charge only a few cents for 100 blogs. This is an example, I never really got into it.

Personally, a include a link to one of my websites whenever I make a post, just so that I can be found and reached if necessary, and it is not necessarily my personal blog. If a comment is interesting, I sometimes want to see the commentor’s site, which bring him traffic. Why should I not be able to get the same, if my comment is somehow useful? ;)

All in all, it’s not that hard to see if somebody made a comment just to get a link, or to add something to the conversation and get a link as a reward. Got nothing to add? No reward, no link! The link must be removed by admin. Even if a comment is 200 words long, it has to be meaningful with regards to the topic being discussed, otherwise it’s pointless.

To summarize, I support removal of stupid comments and/or links. :D

]]> By: Marble Host http://www.randomprocess.ca/2009/03/29/human-comment-spammers-what-to-do/#comment-5967 Marble Host Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:24:50 +0000 http://www.randomprocess.ca/?p=1239#comment-5967 Hehe caught it and posted it approximately 15 minutes earlier on my blog than you :-) Now if a person could subscribe to their own blog and see what everybody else subscribed to it do in terms of sharing and commenting... a reputation management tool of a sort, maybe even with blog ownership verification akin to Technorati or Google Webmaster Tools – now that would have been really useful! Hehe caught it and posted it approximately 15 minutes earlier on my blog than you :-)

Now if a person could subscribe to their own blog and see what everybody else subscribed to it do in terms of sharing and commenting… a reputation management tool of a sort, maybe even with blog ownership verification akin to Technorati or Google Webmaster Tools – now that would have been really useful!

]]> By: Nick http://www.randomprocess.ca/2009/03/29/human-comment-spammers-what-to-do/#comment-5959 Nick Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:30:27 +0000 http://www.randomprocess.ca/?p=1239#comment-5959 I tend to be more pragmatic in my view. I don't think shameless self-promotion of one's infinitesimal place on the internet belongs on personal blogs. If you are linking to something pertinent, a similar post perhaps, or an opinion you have already expressed on the pages of your blog, then fine. However, if it is a general link to your homepage, I deem it rather worthless. There is far too much garbage on the internet for anyone to spend the time sifting through personal blogs for anything of worth. Apologies if I offend anyone. I tend to be more pragmatic in my view. I don’t think shameless self-promotion of one’s infinitesimal place on the internet belongs on personal blogs.

If you are linking to something pertinent, a similar post perhaps, or an opinion you have already expressed on the pages of your blog, then fine. However, if it is a general link to your homepage, I deem it rather worthless. There is far too much garbage on the internet for anyone to spend the time sifting through personal blogs for anything of worth.

Apologies if I offend anyone.

]]> By: Jake Billo http://www.randomprocess.ca/2009/03/29/human-comment-spammers-what-to-do/#comment-5956 Jake Billo Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:46:17 +0000 http://www.randomprocess.ca/?p=1239#comment-5956 Completely reasonable commenting standards. For a few WordPress sites I deal with, a majority of the "awesome site, I must surely check this out" comments are picked up by Akismet within about two days after they start appearing. Just keep marking 'em as spam. :) I guess it has to be like the US Supreme Court decision on pornography: you know it when you see it. A URL with two or more dashes and clearly high ranking Google keywords is a useless comment. Someone coming from a corporate IP block and whining that something you've said is unfair also falls into the astroturfing/whitewashing spectrum. Poor command of the English language with punctuation marks all over the place - while eliminating genuinely stupid people - is also a giveaway. One of the more interesting comments I've received was one re: Excel VBA automation. A friend of mine had a task at work that involved creating an Excel sheet, and a reply within a few days was from a Russian shareware-peddling organization (you know, one of those ones that advertises password crackers for PDF at $99 as one of their staple solutions.) It suggested his solution was inelegant, and that they had something better. I ended up following the link and found out about a fully managed .NET solution that I'll look into next time I need something more than a one-off chart. By the way - we seem to think alike on the recent UW DreamSpark news. OMG, check out my post! ;) Completely reasonable commenting standards. For a few WordPress sites I deal with, a majority of the “awesome site, I must surely check this out” comments are picked up by Akismet within about two days after they start appearing. Just keep marking ‘em as spam. :)

I guess it has to be like the US Supreme Court decision on pornography: you know it when you see it. A URL with two or more dashes and clearly high ranking Google keywords is a useless comment. Someone coming from a corporate IP block and whining that something you’ve said is unfair also falls into the astroturfing/whitewashing spectrum. Poor command of the English language with punctuation marks all over the place – while eliminating genuinely stupid people – is also a giveaway.

One of the more interesting comments I’ve received was one re: Excel VBA automation. A friend of mine had a task at work that involved creating an Excel sheet, and a reply within a few days was from a Russian shareware-peddling organization (you know, one of those ones that advertises password crackers for PDF at $99 as one of their staple solutions.) It suggested his solution was inelegant, and that they had something better. I ended up following the link and found out about a fully managed .NET solution that I’ll look into next time I need something more than a one-off chart.

By the way – we seem to think alike on the recent UW DreamSpark news. OMG, check out my post! ;)

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